In these days iPhone is playing very important role in everywhere in the world and this iPhone technology is very advanced and it is a thin phone like a mini computer with multi touch sensor and you can do anything on iPhone like sending or receiving msgs, mails, pictures or videos, watching news, entertainment, navigational applications, price checking, infotainment, inventory checking, playing internet and management system etc. This apple iPhone breaking down all the records and it has managed to create a lot buzz in the internet market and offering great number of features so mostly people prefer to use iPhone because it has great features and easy to use and the touch system of iPhones is very soft and amazing since its launch, iPhone is very popular in the world. This is like a wireless network that you can do anything on that with full support.
Overview
IPhone is a light weight and small portable smartphone device made by apple which has three powerful functions: mobile, iPod and internet communication and these devices was first released in Jan 2007 which is a line on internet. The size of iPhone is only 11.6 millimetres thick that includes a 3.5-inch 480*320 multi touch screen with unusually high resolution but longer than other comparable devices and when it's close to your face then it turn off with the help of proximity sensor. Fast internet browsing and networking compatibilities include by these devices and it does not use a hardware keyboard and it has great features with 2 or 3 megapixel cameras, 4GB or 8GB or 16GB or 32GB of storage, high speed data transfer which support for 802.11b and 802.11q standards, high speed Bluetooth connectivity and iPhone synchronize data with the help of iTunes as a client software. User can do anything on these devices like watch youtube videos with high quality resolution, playing internet with high speed, checking weather forecast and prices anywhere in the world etc.
While the iPhone was released under an exclusive two year partnership with AT & T wireless and to unlock the device for use on any GSM network, it took less than three month for hackers.
Apple Company says that the life of iPhones is carrying 8 hours for talk or video and 24 hours of listening music which is amazing and iPhone is compatible with Microsoft's windows operating systems and has apple's OS X operating system as well which is modified for mobile use.[searchmobilecomputing][ezinearticle]
Background or history of iphone
IPhone is a small or light device, Internet-enabled mobile phone designed by Apple Company. Apple iPhone was announced by rumors in January 2007 and the first iPhone was launched in the United States on 29 June, 2007. The Apple iPhone is device with multimedia capabilities and also functions as a quad-band mobile phone. The price today for an 8-gigabyte model is US$399. It became available in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. It helps to the user to input information by a virtual keyboard and function buttons. Phone includes great features such as a portable media player, a camera and other usual functions such as voice mail and text messaging. It also includes Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It supports the enhanced data rates for GSM evolution data technology. The information of history of iphone is following below in detail. [appleiphoneunlockig] [xtimeline]
9 Jan 2007 - it was announced with 2 models: - 8GB model and 4GB model. It is multi touch screen it includes Touch screen, Cellular Internet, Wi-Fi access and 2 mega pixel cameras.
29 June 2007 - iphone 2G was introduced in the United States. It includes 3.5in. 320x240 Pixel LCD Captive Touch Wi-Fi, Blue-tooth 2.0, USB via Docking port Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz EDGE/GPRS 2G Data Network.
11 July 2008 - iPhone 3G was released on 17 June 2009 - iPhone OS 3.0 was released. It was great job. It has great features such as Storage: 8 GB model and 16 GB model.
Key Features: - 3G cellular support, GPS functionality, and available in black and white colours. Battery Life: - 10 hours of 2G talk time, 6 hours internet browsing, and 24 hours audio.
19 June 2009 - iPhone 3GS was released in the U.S., Canada and included six European countries. 26 June 2009 - iPhone 3GS was released in Australia and Japan.
July, August 2009 - iPhone 3GS was released internationally.
10 July 2009 - Singtel released iPhone 3GS price plan and it was released on 29 October, 2009 with great function such as 2Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz EDGE/GPRS A-GPS, Tri Band HSDPA/UMTS 850, 1900, 2100 MHz "3G" Data Network.
8 Apr 2010 - iphone 4 was announced and it also include great offer such multi touch gestures, game central social network, background ground audio, share data among, push notification etc..
The iphone 5 is coming soon with great features and it will become with more functions and with more facilities and hopefully it will be shine again across the world. [brighthub] [tech18] [sgmobiledeals]
IPhone Development
The iPhone is one of the top most branded phones in today's market which comes with great features and an SDK was released by Apple for iPhones for the creation of various types of mobile applications which gives full access to phone to access applications like address book, calendar, calculator, dialler, accelerometer, convertor, multi-touch interface and proximity sensor.
On the other hand, the process of creation of an iphone application is much similar to design a Mac OS X application and the developers need a different approach at the time of designing any of an iPhone application and they are ready to do best customer services by providing high quality or premium quality of iPhone applications are following:
User friendly interface
Mobile applications and Broad experience in Mac OS
Professional usage of iPhone SDK
Custom application design through the use of the latest equipment in 2D and 3D graphics
Profound understanding of the iPhone platform's inner architecture
Advanced usage of unique iPhone features: the multi-touch interface, accelerometer and proximity sensor
Now days the popularity of mobile phones is developing very fast as comparative the desktop or laptop market and people prefer to get small devices like iPhone which has all features of desktop and these devices are easy to handle and you can use anywhere in the world and this next generation iPhone device taken up its position in the market. By the name of Steve Jobs, Apple CEO announced that there were more than 140,000 various applications on the apple store at the time of his presentation of the next generation iPad devices by the end of 2009. According to report, there are 23 countries in the Apple mobile network with more than 100,000 unique iPhones and iPod touch devices. In 2009, the sale of Apple's handsets increased by 150 percent and the provider of apple store believe that the sale figure of apple phones in 2010 are expected to increase and the iPhone providers design different types of iPhone applications categories which are given below:
Messaging
Video and voice calling
Entertainment and games
News and weather forecast
Social networking
Search tools
Navigation
Dictionaries and translators
Business and finance
Utilities
Shopping and price checking[intellectsoft]
IPhone Applications
There are lots of mobiles phones which are coming everyday in the world with great features but iPhone is the first revolutionary product which came with powerful technology and this product (iPhone) can do practically anything whatever you want or that you could need to do with portable technology. It is a type of third party software programs created only for iPhones and the iPad touch. These types of applications like wireless headphones (bluetooths) that you can use any of application in the iphone without connecting any wire.
Mostly people prefer to use in iPhone which may providing different applications or functions depending on the program and make sure those people who are using or interested in any iPhone that they are using iPhones only because other types of Smartphone does not support iPhone applications and these applications based on iTunes and any other different types of Smartphone like nokia, sonyericsson, Samsung, motrola, HTC, LG, blackberry etc they have their own specific applications or own online stores. There are some of iPhone applications which are quite similar with other Smartphone's applications and might be different.
The iPhone may provide best customer expectations and offering lots of different functions which are very helpful for both casual and business users and there are number of iphone applications which are following below:[wisegeek]
Myspace
There are lots of applications in the app store for staying in touch with each other and myspace is the one of the most popular application for iphone. By using this, you can create your own social network lets you to share, send or receive messages and also it will help you to read and view your friend's status and you can upload any photo or video in it. This is the application that you can expand your network by searching new friends. [appsafari]
Nasa application
NASA is the great applications which you can easily download from apple app store. This application provides the information of NASA like images, videos and news from various sources which you can collects, customizes and delivers and it gives information about the path and progress of NASA and also it is the tracking information of current position of international spacestation. [universetoday]
Periodic table or elements
This application is very helpful for students which give information about name, symbol, atomic number or mass, phase, melting point, density, oxidation number and boiling point etc and student can easily find any of an element by typing atomic number. With the help of this, a student can get knowledge or learned about atomic numbers or various types of elements. [pcworld]
Limbo
Limbo is a type of social network and also called loopt which allows users to interact with each other that are very close and it behaves like mashup of twitter, loopt and whrrl. The main feature of this application is that its grid-like a diagram which visually groups your friends according to what they are doing. [techcrunch]
New oxford American dictionary
This application is very helpful for those people who using iphones in their daily life and this is one of the most comprehensive dictionary which support full dictionary and offering more than 200,00 entries and definitions and 300,000 synonyms so you can search everything in this app and easy to use. There are some features of this that it toggle between dictionary and thesaurus entries, no connection required and display a history of dictionary entry views.[iappphone]
Digital Compass
The compass application is work like a map which can help you to find any direction that where you are or where you going and also helpful for outdoor exploration while camping, fishing or hunting and it get the all information in the phone through GPS sensor which makes this application extremely accurate. It is very simplistic and clean that gives you latitude, longitude, direction and heading degree and covers all your needs. [navigationapps]
Convert - the unit calculator
This application is a type of unit convertor e.g. time, speed, temperature, pressure and typography. It helps to change the currency rate like dollar to pound, convert any unit of anything into anything else and convert kilometres to miles. It also converts three types of conversion in unit conversion area like length, force power and area so with this type of application you can easily tell any type of conversion with couple of second. [148apps]
Microsoft word 2010
The Microsoft is the excellent iphone application for students or business users which will help to view all types of format files like doc, docx, pdf, pdfx, xls, xlsx etc. and full access of MS office and this application released in june 2010 announced by Microsoft company which you can download easily in mobiles and the Microsoft statement says that you can access MS office in two different ways in mobile phones such as the Microsoft office 2010 web apps version and the office mobile 2010 version and it will help you to view ms word documents, spread sheets and PowerPoint and also you can download these types of format files.[iyogi]
Shozu
Shozu is an excellent application for iphone users which allows you to upload any type of picture through your iphone to number of online communities like facebook, picasa web albums, twitter, flicker and google blogger etc and it also allow you to change their social network status. Firstly it was very long process to upload any of pictures to these types of communities but this new application makes easy way to do anything on online services through shozu. [softpedia]
Ibank
Ibank in iphones is like a online banking which allow you to full access of your bank account in mobile phone and regularly updates your transactions about your daily saving or spending money and let you know about your remaining balance. With this user can synchronize transaction, accounts and categories automatically. It is the best applications for iOS devices.[iggsoftware]
iTriage
A itriage application is the best application for medical services which was introduced by healthagen that offers to find out nearby hospital, pharmacies and other types of treatment centers through GPS. By using this application you can search and browse number of diseases, symptoms and procedures. In few seconds it show number of medical center or ER wait times do you can choose which to go to and it gives information on more than 1000 diseases, 300 symptoms and 350 medical procedure.[couponsaving family]
Save benjis iphone app
Save benjis iphone application is a quick search of all products and with this you can check all the prices and compare prices with others. It's like a shopping tool that you can any of product at home in iphone and it will take you to where the product is available and you can order there and they will email to you for your purchase and provide multiple choices.[what'soniphone]
Pocket express
This application helps you to customized news like you can check daily news over the world and see what is going on, also we can check weather forecast around the globe through this, and also it provides the finance related news and travel charges or changes, and also tell you about all the information of different sports that who won or loose. The pocket express is the one touch access application over the world and provide daily updates.[filecluster]
Istudiez pro
An istudiez pro is a type of school management application which help students to remind their classes, tests, assignments, homework etc and many more things related with students. It is a very useful calendar and you can set up your whole week or month schedule and all your classes and assignments and make sure to get them complete and this application will alert you by sending notification every time and you can keep all your important information in it.[razorianfly]
Barcode scanner
Here is the barcode scanner application for iphone developed be good guide which is like a searching tool over the internet and provide real time analysis of the products. It is very easy to use just scan the barcode of any item and it will find the product information or cheaper price product. [newlaunches]
Compare and analyse of iphone with android
The mobile phones are playing very important role in everyone's life and everyone have their own mobile phone. All mobiles have different-2 operating that all are good but some of them are very advanced like today's market both iphone and android seems to going up. Both are similar with each other but some features are different.
Here is the battle begin between iphone and android devices to find out which operating system or hardware is better and this is the same old battle of Mac's and pc's.
Both android OS and iphone OS are excellent phones and using same Linux-based operating systems and android phones have more applications than iphone that some applications are quite similar. There are some points that analysing the qualities and features of both iphone and android systems which are given below:
The quality of display is very good in both and you can easily read and write.
The iphone has double touch which is easy to use and very sensitive where the android has got single touch that take some time to zoom in or zoom out. But both are very accurate and intuitive.
An android phone's Bluetooth system is very fast and much better than of iphone and the droid providing more settings to manage our account where the iphone is not good on Bluetooth.
By using LED flash and high resolution of camera, the picture quality of android is very good and clear than iphone. The iphone models using up to 3 mega pixel cameras where the droid phones using more than 5 mega pixel.
The battery life of iphone is quite longer than android. "Battery performance definitely varies from android handsets to android handset where the iphones battery performance is particularly new and generally outlasts androids.
Both android and iphone give full support better quality of playback videos and the picture quality of video is very nice and smooth play in back.
The devices of android are going to be very popular in a short time but from an ease of use, iphone easy to learn initially where it is very harder to learn initially in android. Iphone got one button in the front which will help easy to understand what's going on and there are several buttons on android's devices which takes time to understand so the iphone wins out.
Iphone is also called a game station that like a toy and it provide number of games with high quality resolution and smoother play where as the android give number of solid gaming option but it still not closed o iphone gaming system.
The android has a simple music player but the iphone got a very solid ipod app for music which gives super quality of music to listen.
The desktop of android is completely different than iphone's desktop and you can set wallpapers to iphone which are exactly look like but the android devices are Mr. Potato head customizability which giving some effects to android desktop.
The software keyboard of iphones is much better than android phones.
In searches like contacts, media, files, data, emails, applications, notes and calendar etc both are very fast to search. [ifehacker][pawprint.network]
In the last, you can say that android is the new technology which providing lots of features over iphone and iphone OS is bit old technology but it's still very popular.
Disadvantages of iphone
Iphone is a useful smart-phone which has got lots of features that you could expect from iphone but there some bad things or disadvantages of using iphone which will affect the popularity of iphone are listed below:
The iphone has got no front camera so you are not allowed to make video call from your device.
Memory of iphone is not expandable.
It has no voice dialling capability.
The price of iphone is very costly as comparative as others.
The iphone has no GPS facility.
The main camera of iphone is only up to 2 or 3 mega pixels only and there is no option for auto focusing, recording or settings.
There is no copy and paste option or function in the iphone.
Notes and data cannot be synchronized by iphone.
The browser of iphone (safari) doesn't support some java function or unable to download some flash files. [jantu'rblog]
Conclusion
In the end, I believe that all mobiles have their own features and some of them are new technologies and they need some time to develop such as android is the latest technology in today's market and going to be very popular day by day. Both android and iphone are to use and have their own advantages. Android market is much better than app store but it is not as user friendly as the app store so I would say that if a person wants to use different applications or widgets then get the android phone operating system and if a person wants good looking and easy to use phone then gets the iphone which is very advanced in some technology like it got double touch sensor system which is excellent but both operating systems are amazing.
